You won't be able to play Ubisoft's strategy game R.U.S.E. using Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect anytime soon, but the PC version is another matter entirely.

Here we see multitouch and gesture computing company Evoluce boss Wolfgang Herfurtner navigating the opening battle from Eugen System's R.U.S.E. using a combination of his company's software and Microsoft's motion-sensing camera peripheral. It's the same technology we saw last month controlling basic Windows 7 tasks.

I controlled a real-time-strategy game with my fingertips for the first time last week. It…
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It's certainly an impressive display of gesture-based control, but I couldn't see myself preferring it over the standard mouse and keyboard controls the PC game comes with. It's novel, but not really all that practical.